Comments on: Who has business and marketing saavy?

Question: Who has business and marketing saavy?

goalyeehah — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:10:53 -0800

1) I need assistance with business and marketing issues. I know that there are organizations out there where retirees offer their services and expertise. Does anyone know any of their names????? 2) What is podcasting????? What is required????? I am running a small yoga studio out of my home and am planning on expanding. I have never run a business before and would like insight and support from someone who has been there, done that. Same goes for marketing, in which I seriously lack expertise.

I am also interested in how podcasts are set up?

By: Ostara

Ostara — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:14:49 -0800

1.) SCORE - Service Corps of Retired Executives. You should be able to find them through your local Small Business Administration office.

By: tuxster

tuxster — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:21:34 -0800

SCORE is the service like Ostara said, and they also have their own website where you can enter keywords and they'll find someone willing/able to help you.

I think there were several informative threads on podcasting in the past few months.

By: WestCoaster

WestCoaster — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:25:50 -0800

To understand what podcasting is, a good place to start is with the wikipedia article.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:11:42 -0800

I'm not sure if the podcast question is somehow strangely related to the marketing expertise question, but if it isn't, consider not putting two unrelated questions into one AskMe post in the future. It makes for a messy thread where people either try to answer one question or the other... or... people pile on you.

By: poppo

poppo — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:51:33 -0800

I know, I shouldn't, but I have to :)

Why so many question marks?????

By: Elvis

Elvis — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:53:15 -0800

Be careful with SCORE. We tried to use them some years ago and it wound up to be a couple of old guys who came in, met with us, and then came back for a second meeting where they "advised" that our best bet was to put them on retainer.

It was a huge waste of time.

You could go buy - and I'm serious - Marketing for Dummies and know a lot. Most of what you have to do to market involves just plain old work. You probably know more about it than you think. It's certainly not magic.